Thanks Rambuchan, I tried to give an inside report of the game development.
@ Victory points: Its true, victory scores are quite low, but I think the overall points are pretty normal. Its just that they are divided quite evenly between the Civs. This scores were about 1593, the time when I send my army north to secure Bangalore, and Vijayanagar was already taken by my forces. Mughals were leading with ~10900, then EIC with ~10300, followed by Vijayanagar ~ 7700. Most other Civs behind Vijayanagar were about 5000 to 7500 Points, .... But then there was much less big fights then in my first game, where I had to act much more violent to survive with Ahmadnagar.
I think scores were around ~20000 at the same period in that game.
@ Vijayanagar city: Its a nice wonder, but mainly for the Indian Civs, since naturally all my Colonies already had Granaries. In fact some of my disease striken Pospects wouldn't have survived with proper population groth. I just had a city in Myanmar go down from 8 top 3 in 5 turns (lost one population each turn).
@ Portuguese and Navy: Yes, and I like it that way, seaoperation ist really dangerous for me. But I have also to admit, that I accepted it, and didnt try to come up with new ships. My colonies are well selfsustainable. I guess the portuguese did it the same way, after they had some tough lessons with the dutch navy.
@ Switching government: All Euros do it, I have not had them not change to Mansab system. In fact, I was amongst the first Euros to do so. One might ask why, since it doesn't seem to be a wise decission. Its all about influence! When Mansab-system is available it naturally spreads fast among the "nations". Thus if you don't change government, the other Civs will hate you, making you a prime target for attack. If your game is just about conquering, one might not care, but mine wasn't. Then its also quite a good challenge for the Euros, since they become somewhat weaker when this happens, less troops, workers are slower etc. But it reflects the growing power of the Indian reigns. If a Colonial power hasn't taken/kept foothold until 1600, it simply has no big chance to do so anymore. If you would want to keep the Colonial government for the Euros, you would have to fix their governments. But then their buildings have to spit out less troops or they will overpower the rest.
@ I like the custom wonder Idea, and have strongly implemented it that way in my personal TAM - which is more of a TAM in very early stages, describing the rise and fall of Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Harappa(Indus) Cultures. The creators of TAM might forgive me about this incursion! But I just limited it to heritage - Culture groups. So the Pyramids can not be build by Sumer or Akkad, but still by Nubians, but most likely will by the Eqyptians because of the ressource deployment. The great Tempel of Marduk could thus be either build by Sumer (if still alive), Akkad (most likely) or even the newcomers from Assyria, etc. .....
@ Rajput Resolve. Yes I read the Text, since I build it as Ahmadnagar in my first game. I think I comprehend, why you implemented the wonders this way.
@ Mughals were finally dispatched by the Safawids, about 1600. Unfortunate though, since they didnt lose more then 3 cities in general account, but lost and reconquered them continously. Thus, the Safawids might not be far from annihilation, either. They (Safawids) were always close to this in my first game, where they had to take big time bashing form Bengal, like all others. In my Portuguese game Bengal was a little less the threat, but that might change now, since the Mughals are gone.
@ Aye, I was joking about "Batavia", because its basically not on the map, thus maybe another name for the Dutch colonies would be more appropriate.
But then, its not that important. I personally though like to have as many historical facts in my games, and have changed for example "Quest for Prester John" into Maskat (Masquat -> Oman), which seems more appropriate for the Portuguese foothold on the arabian coast. They also had a foothold in the street of Ormuz on the Persian coast at that time, but thats also not that important.
Facts from historical Maps, say that Portuguese started the following footholds in that area in the early 16th century.
Aden -> Lost to Arabs/Ottomans -> British (1839!)
Sokotra -> Lost to Arabs/Ottomans
Maskat -> Lost to Arabs/Ottomans
Ormuz -> Lost to Persians (1622, with support of the english fleet)
Diu (Feitoria)
Daman (Damao)
Bassein (Bacaim)
Chaul
Bombay -> Later English (1660)
Goa
Kalikut -> Later Dutch
Kotschin -> Later Dutch (1663)
Negapattan -> Later Dutch (1659)
Colombo -> Later Dutch (1656)
Hooghly (Ugolin, Ganges delta)
Malacca -> Later Dutch (1641)
None of those footholds though were lost before 1600, most not before 1650, and some endured much longer.
Some ideas:
* "Sokotra" could be a better name for the "Chartered Docks" btw. The Island used to be highly important for seaoperations in the Indic.
* "Pondicherry" wouldn't be French before 1673, but then, the scenario needs balance, ...
My game has advanced in between. I was lucky once more. Overall Peace came after the Fall of Vijayanagar and not much later the Mughals. The Brits hated me, maybe because they had to pay a lot for my advances in Technology, sold to them. But maybe because, I took the two most important cities from Vijayanagar. I was ignoring those signs of aggression though, and when the English started sending in Coolies to build roads through my territory, I was pleased. I was blind! I build up the Colonies instead of building up my military, and BOOM! about 1600 the English declared war on me, invading from all sides, mainly from the sea though.
But they had underestimated me, heavily even. I quickly called out to the few left friends, and French and Bijapur immidiately declared war on the Brits. The others were already intimidated too much by the EIC. I repelled their invasions, though with the cost of many lives on both sides. I quickly lost all my 4 Viceroy Cavs build till that time, and had to replace them quickly, very quickly. But then I managed to turn the tide against them, and conquered city by city, until they were left with what they had before their war with Vijayanagar, Fort St. David. At this time the EIC sued for peace!!! I was victorious, and had secured southern India, besides the english fort and the dutch colony on the very tip. Maskat nearly fell to a huge Invasion force, and lands were once again deserted, but I lost not a single colony. I treated the loosers bad, collecting quite some reparations, their anger grew ...
EIC now went for Bijapur, that was now overwhelmed, hating me for making peace with the EIC, just like the French. Thats about 1627 now, and the English declared war on me again, just after a few turns of peace. I keep defensive, but my position is good now.
The Scores are now:
England 13100
Portugal 12500
Persia 11900
One more thing that seems funny to me atm.
I can not trade ressources with VOC, though there is no embargo or such, and they have three colonies directly connected to mine. Its seems the Dutch play their very own game, with no interaction at all with other powers. No war, no trade, .... Whats up with them?
Edit: Dutch started to come alive and declared war on me. Quite typical, though deadly rivals at that time, when odds were bad, the dutch and english always worked together, most time to the advantage of both nations.
Some more Ideas about Names and Locations:
* Instead of "Batavia", the best name for the colony on the south Tip of India would be "Kutsching".
* I would also skip "Jakarta" from the Dutch Namelist, since its the same as Batavia, and well we know that this part is not on the map.
* Instead of Siamfoothold I would use the Name "Mergui" adn the Stop or Way to Siam could be "Akyab"
* I am not sure if the CIVs Ahmadnagar and Bijapur are located correctly with the right cities, but I am no expert on that. On the maps they seem to be a bit more in the south.
* I am sure though about the location of Haiderabad(Hyderabad), which is definitely not on the coast, but much closer to Golconda. Madras though should be on the coast.
* I am also a little bit confused about Surat Line. On most maps of that time its still listed as Diu in Portuguese hands, while the scenario really misses Bombay(Mumbay), which was in English hands from 1660 on.
* There would be quite a number of other european colonies around, especially from the Dutch and Protuguese, but wel it needs balnce as I already quoted before.
* Surprisingly, the danish were quite imperialistic at this time, well at least not just around the northern hemisphere, and had colonies all over the globe, the indian wold have been "Tranquebar" just south of Pondicherry, and "Serampore" (Frederiksnagar) in the Ganges delta, where all Colonial-Europe nations had tradeposts. Well, the danish, ...

* Colombo on the other hand was for sure Dutch, and some maps claim entire Ceylon being Portuguese from 1518 till 1609, and then Dutch.
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Vasco da Gama is the correct spelling.
* Instead of Vascos Traders, you could use "Estado da India".